"'AEGEA' ... comes across as more a soundtrack to some lost foreign film than the kind of music I'm usually associated with," Corgan says.

Singer Billy Corgan, the lead singer of the Smashing Pumpkins attends an unveiling ceremony where the rock band Rush was honored with the 2,412th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on June 25, 2010. UPI/Jim Ruymen | License Photo

Jimmy Chamberlin (L) and Billy Corgan of rock band The Smashing Pumpkins hold up their hands after putting them in cement during a ceremony inducting them into the Hollywood RockWalk in Los Angeles on April 23, 2008. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen) | License Photo

CHICAGO, April 9 (UPI) -- Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan plans to release a limited number of copies of his new solo album, AEGEA.

"As a work, AEGEA is experimental in nature, and comes across as more a soundtrack to some lost foreign film than the kind of music I'm usually associated with," Corgan says of the album on The Smashing Pumpkins website. "Listening back I quite like how AEGEA goes along, as it has qualities that are both meditative and alien; but not alienating."

The album was recorded in 2007, and the musician will "hand-number and annotate" 250 vinyl copies of the two-record set for distribution. The limited edition copies will sell for $60 each, and go on sale in six to eight weeks.
Corgan and The Smashing Pumpkins recently announced their intent to release two new albums -- Monuments to an Elegy and Day for Night -- in 2015. The band hopes to debut a new single by the end of 2014.

"For those interested in sound, think: 'guitars, guitars, guitars, and more guitars," Corgan wrote of Monuments to an Elegy and Day for Night. "But more so on the epic side of things than, say, grossly metallic."